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Shabad Kriya

This meditation is intended to help with sleep disorders like insomnia. It involves regulating the breath while mentally chanting the mantra "SA-TA-NA-MA" during inhalation and "WAHE-GURU" during exhalation. With regular practice, the mantra will be internally chanted even during sleep, improving sleep quality. Additional benefits include better thinking, working, sharing, and loving. The meditation is suggested for reducing stress and fatigue.

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Shabad Kriya

This meditation is intended to help with sleep disorders like insomnia. It involves regulating the breath while mentally chanting the mantra "SA-TA-NA-MA" during inhalation and "WAHE-GURU" during exhalation. With regular practice, the mantra will be internally chanted even during sleep, improving sleep quality. Additional benefits include better thinking, working, sharing, and loving. The meditation is suggested for reducing stress and fatigue.

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SHABAD KRIYA MEDITATION

Yogi Bhajan taught the following meditation to practice before going to bed and to help people with sleep disorders like insomnia. If practiced on a regular basis, once a week or even every night, your sleep will be deep and relaxed. The control of the rhythm of the breath strengthens the nervous system and regenerates the nerves. After a few months, the rhythm of your breath will be subconsciously regulated and eventually you will internally chant the mantra while you are sleeping. You may wake up to the internal chant of the mantra and hear it in your daily activities. You will think better, work better, share better and love better. "There cannot be enough praise of the meditations effect on the personality. It gives the mind the power to stretch to infinity, promotes radiance, patience and practical universality." This is a good meditation to do to recover from fatigue caused by normal daily stress, travel and even jet lag. MUDRA-HAND POSITION Sit in Easy Pose with a straight spine. Hands are in the lap in Buddha Mudra: palms up, right hand resting on top of left. The thumbs touch and face forward. EYES The eyes focus at the tip of the nose with the eyes about 9/10th closed. There are several ways to facilitate looking at the tip of the nose. Bring your forefinger in front of your face and look at it. Keep looking at the forefinger and slowly bring the forefinger to the tip of the nose. The eyes focused at the tip of the nose causes the optic nerves to cross at the third eye. Thus it is easier to bring your mental focus to the third eye while the eyes are directed at the tip of the nose. Both the pineal and the pituitary glands and the area between them are stimulated by this eye posture, which has the effect of breaking old habits and creating new ones. BREATHING AND MANTRA Inhale 4 equal parts through the nose, i.e. the inhale is divided into 4 sniffs. Mentally vibrate SA TA NA MA with the four parts of the inhale breath. Hold the breath and mentally repeat 4 repetitions of SA TA NA MA. This will be 16 counts Then exhale in 2 equal strokes, mentally projecting WAHE GURU WAHE GURU means ecstasy. WAHE GURU is the result of integrating SAT NAM into the psyche. When we experience the Truth, we feel ecstasy. TIME Continue for 11, 15, 22, 31 or even 62 minutes. This meditation will often put you to sleep before you complete the allotted time. This meditation was originally taught by Yogi Bhajan April 1, 1974.

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